Recap: 2012 Internet of Things Day

We were kindly asked to team up with the the Internet of Things Council and Forum to help promote the event through http://iot2012.com and this year proved to be a big success with 18 events being planned in 16 countries.

Some snapshots:

Rotterdam, Netherlands: Home-sense vs. IoT:Initiated by Martin Pot and continuing on from an event held in December atV2_ (Event videos and recap can be viewed here) focused on the question of What are the consequences and questions for our home-environment in relation to the Internet of Things? Attendants included Dr.Ben van Lier(Centric), John Post (Open Data), Bas Kortmann (WdKA), Iwan Koolen(IKOON) and Erik van der Zee (Consultant at Geodan).

New York, USA: Why Zombies are Important to the Internet of ThingsKellyn Loehr at the Parsons the New School for Design used some Dunkin Donuts as bait to bring other students together for a session focused on Zombiecomp or what happens when you combine objects and computation. You can follow along with more Zombiecomp project developments at: http://zombie-comp.com

Timisoara, Romania: XceedAfterhours IOTDesign studio Xceed decided to extend their work day a little longer on Monday to fit in a little IoT discussion. Starting off with this Youtube playlist of IoT overview videos and leading into a late night of brainstorming.

Zurich, Switzerland: Proto-hacking everyday products' communication with AndroidEVRYTHNG an IoT platform company lead by Niall Murphy, Andy Hobsbawm, Vlad Trifa and Dominique Guinard held an event to hack together an Android based food tracking app using a combination of the EVRYTHNG API, NFC Tags, loads of QR-codes, Android devices (including some ICS), Sunspots and a few Arduinos.